The Republican US presidential candidate John McCain was not tortured during his captivity in North Vietnam, the chief prison guard of the jail in which he was held has claimed.
In an interview with the Italian daily Corriere della Sera, Nguyen Tien Tran acknowledged that conditions in the prison were “tough, though not inhuman”. But, he [...]

There is a subject John McCain almost never brings up and has never been open about — his long-time opposition to releasing documents and information about American prisoners of war (POW) in Vietnam and the missing in action (MIA) who have still not been accounted for. Since McCain himself, a downed Navy pilot, was a [...]